Designed in collaboration with Disability:IN, JanSport’s Adaptive Collection is a winner of the 2023 Innovation by Design Awards. Backpack maker JanSport is demonstrating how heritage brands can successfully bring accessible design mainstream. In January, following a three-year collaboration with Disability:IN, a global nonprofit focused on increasing inclusivity for the [...]
One in four U.S. adults has a disability which impacts major life activities, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including difficulty in hearing and seeing, in mobility like climbing stairs, in cognition like concentrating and in living independently and taking on activities like dressing. Altogether, 61 [...]
By: Leslie Wilson Did you know that nearly 1.3 billion people globally live with some sort of disability? The disability community includes people who are affected physically, mentally, intellectually, developmentally or cognitively, or by a combination of factors. One in four U.S. adults has some form of disability, with [...]
In today’s challenging homecare world, it’s easy for business owners and corporate leaders to put diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts at the bottom of a very long to-do list. After all, it’s just something that’s nice to have, rather than a must-do, right? Not at Cardinal Health, where [...]
Many employees don't disclose their disability, and employers need to move past 'transactional accommodations,' says expert On July 26, Governor of California Gavin Newsom declared July 26 would be known as “Americans with Disabilities Act Awareness Day” in California — 33 years after the Act was signed into law [...]
Though success levels and prioritization may vary, nobody would ever argue that executing an effective corporate disability inclusion strategy isn’t a desirable outcome for most serious-minded medium to large-scale enterprises. Unfortunately, attaining this goal is often easier said than done due to multiple underlying complexities ranging from a lack [...]
Disability:IN’s annual index found that just 4.5% of workers self-identify as disabled. While disabled US workers have historically had some of the highest unemployment rates, the data shows that the last three years have seen tremendous progress in reducing the community’s unemployment rate. This is largely due to more [...]
Employee self-identification and board representation rates remain low, according to a new disability equality index. Companies are making strides in implementing more disability inclusion practices throughout their corporate culture, but several key areas need sustained attention in coming years, according to a July 10 report from the 2023 Disability [...]
By Ted Kennedy Jr. Reports show inclusion of disabled individuals lagging behind gender and ethnicity as a priority in the boardroom. As a child, I lost my leg to pediatric bone cancer. Now I am a healthcare rights attorney and member of two corporate boards. I openly attribute my [...]
Law360 (July 11, 2023, 1:55 PM EDT) -- People tend to underestimate the number of disabled lawyers in the workplace, but because many attorneys feel they need to project strength and not weakness, most of them hide their disability, according to several experts. So one of the most significant ways [...]
